@Night-guant49: So very true. Thank you for capturing the Tea Party mission so succinctly. The Tea Party is nothing more than John Birch rearing their ugly heads again. With any luck, in their zeal to destroy our government, they’ll take the whole Republican party down with them.
It isn’t a binary solution. Just because a loose confederation of 13 essentially independent countries failed doesn’t mean the Founders wanted a strong unitary state. They didn’t. They settled on a middle ground where a strong federal government handled foreign affairs and interstate trade, and states handled the rest. It’s sort of how the European Union operates today (but without the thousand-page directives).
Mark Jackson Premium Member over 10 years ago
For years there was a diner near here with the motto (prominently displayed) “where quality predominates”….
dogday Premium Member over 10 years ago
They obviously took Logic 101 from the realtor in Non Sequiter. But then, they’re prairie dogs. What’s everyone else’s excuse?
alise.duhon over 10 years ago
@Night-guant49: So very true. Thank you for capturing the Tea Party mission so succinctly. The Tea Party is nothing more than John Birch rearing their ugly heads again. With any luck, in their zeal to destroy our government, they’ll take the whole Republican party down with them.
KPOM over 10 years ago
It isn’t a binary solution. Just because a loose confederation of 13 essentially independent countries failed doesn’t mean the Founders wanted a strong unitary state. They didn’t. They settled on a middle ground where a strong federal government handled foreign affairs and interstate trade, and states handled the rest. It’s sort of how the European Union operates today (but without the thousand-page directives).